use-v4-flash-worker

use-v4-flash-worker is a skill for Codex from Utopia-V/mixagents. It costs 70 tokens per session (1,003 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for using a DeepSeek-backed worker that performs bounded text, code, log, search, extraction, enumeration, or reading tasks. It explains how to prepare assignments, protect credentials, and return results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Handling high-volume read-only inspection, code or log searches, extraction, and enumeration when the material is much larger than the final answer.
Why use it?
It helps delegate large, well-defined reading or text-processing jobs while keeping sensitive information and important decisions with the main agent.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Codex.

Good fit Handling high-volume read-only inspection, code or log searches, extraction, and enumeration when the material is much larger than the final answer.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/utopia-v/mixagents/use-v4-flash-worker
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Utopia-V/mixagents --skill use-v4-flash-worker
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Utopia-V/mixagents

Made for: Codex.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,003 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00070 $0.01003
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.00502
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00201
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00100

Measured 2d ago against content hash 681ed362139b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-v4-flash-worker scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

packages/codex-deepseek-subagent/skills/use-v4-flash-worker/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use V4 Flash Worker (legacy)

Check compatibility first

Read the active Codex version before staging an assignment or spawning a child. If it is 0.149.0 or later, stop without calling a provider and direct the user to mixagents-broker and its installation guide. If the version cannot be established, treat this native route as unqualified and do not dispatch it.

Do not migrate the task to Broker automatically. The user must install and configure Broker before using its provider routes.

Select legacy work

  • Select Flash only when the user requests it or its provider-declared 1M context changes whether a bounded, preferably read-only reading task is feasible. It is not the routine factual scout.
  • Keep coupled reasoning, consequential decisions, verification, and final integration in the parent. Use a multimodal worker for images.
  • The assignment crosses the configured DeepSeek data boundary. Sensitive material requires user authorization; credentials remain in the provider environment. Delegation never changes the parent's model or provider.

Deliver one self-contained job

  1. Build one complete assignment containing child identity, objective, scope, exclusions, available permissions, evidence or output contract, and stopping condition. Keep it in parent-owned execution state; do not publish it as user-visible commentary merely for transport.
  2. Pipe the assignment through stdin to the installed handoff script in stage mode. Use the standard installed path below. If it is absent, inspect the effective SubagentStart Hook matching ^v4_flash_worker$ and use the same reviewed script path with its mode changed from hook to stage:
    • Windows: powershell.exe -NoProfile -NonInteractive -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "<codex-home>\hooks\codex-deepseek-subagent\plaintext-handoff.ps1" -Mode stage
    • macOS/Linux: python3 "<codex-home>/hooks/codex-deepseek-subagent/plaintext_handoff.py" --mode stage
  3. Require a successful stage result naming v4_flash_worker. Treat a lock contender, an active pending or claimed item, quarantined state, or any other non-success result as a transport failure. Never spawn after a failed stage. Retry the complete stage only after the occupied state is explicitly clear, and spawn only after that new stage succeeds.
  4. Immediately create the child through Codex's native spawn_agent with the exact agent type v4_flash_worker, a unique task name, and fork_turns="none". Do not replace this with a provider CLI, direct API call, or inherited root history. Keep all essential instructions in the staged assignment; let the spawn message only identify the trusted one-shot Hook.
  5. Receive the child through Codex's native wait/callback path. Use one task-sized idle wait or callback; do not short-poll, duplicate the child work, or invent another return transport while it runs.
  6. Verify the returned contribution in proportion to the parent claim, then integrate it in the parent context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago Changed · +7 lines · -4 tokens per session 681ed362139b
  2. 7d ago First seen · 72 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A d3b03622f8f8

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use-v4-flash-worker is a skill published in the GitHub repository Utopia-V/mixagents (185 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 1,003 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.